Sentences with phrase «from schlock»

«Black Dynamite,» which stars Michael Jai White in the titular role, is a send - up of Blaxploitation movies that, unlike the parodies from schlock masters Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg (the guys behind «Meet The Spartans,» «Disaster Movie,» et al), actually reveres its source material.

The Conjuring has amassed an impressive amount of hype as a classy horror offering from schlock director James Wan, the new master of scare of the week films Saw, Dead Silence, and Insidious.

At 7:30, you can head over to Landmark Magnolia and catch a disaster movie nominated for a Best Picture Oscar — from schlock producer Irwin Allen, no less!.

Not exact matches

Exquisitely shot high glamour doesn't jump smoothly from the pages of glossy magazines to the relatively low - resolution and low - brow Internet, with its schlock dancing - cartoon - character banner ads.

If it's been a while since you've felt the cold blast and hard crunch of midnight - movie meanness, Zahler's shaping up to be your guy — the one selling illicit thrills out of the trunk of a well - restored, vinyl - topped LTD — and with «Brawl,» he sets himself further apart from his more schlock - minded contemporaries in cult cinem

Thanks in large part to the independent film movement of the late»80s, the boyishly handsome James LeGros went from being an underrated bit player in Hollywood schlock to a well - respected character actor.

The Amityville Horror is schlock horror adapted from a misguided book that is only interesting based on the presumption of its truth.

I wouldn't expect any less from the director of «Final Destination 5» and the writer of «Step Up All In,» but it's hard not to feel bad for the actors involved, especially Richard Armitage, because he deserves better than this kind of SyFy summer schlock.

At the rate he's going, without some kind of Tarantino - style revival, Nicolas Cage seems mere months away from embracing direct - to - video schlock as his new calling.

Aside from self - rising hair and a devotion to schlock zombie flicks, this introspective 11 - year - old can also see the dead.

Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus brought the film rights to the series, hoping to turn Cannon Films from a maker of B - Movie schlock into a major studio.

Aside from «Death Wish» a few weeks ago, Willis seems to be almost exclusively doing this sort of schlock.

Mr. Right is a perfectly entertaining little rom - com film which is ultimately pretty harmless, infused with some post-modernist fun that sets it apart from your standard Nicholas Sparks schlock.

With all the schlock that has dotted Nicolas Cage's filmography during the past decade, the nadir might be this hilariously inept dystopian thriller from Canada.

From Beyond is too well acted and boldly thought through to be considered schlock horror, and makes a strong case for the fact that good taste doesn't always equal good movies.

The Amityville Horror is a film so awful that it begs the question, «Which group is more asinine — families that stay in an overtly horrific haunted house as long as they can or movie studio execs that keep mining from the same empty shaft of ideas for ways to bombard us with abhorrent, unsavory schlock we've all seen dozens of times before?»

I'd known Larry from LA — I used to frame the schlock prints he manufactured.